Update: Sorry guys, you snooze you lose. Looks like this might have been a limited time thing since a lot of users are reporting they're no longer free. We tested it out and sure enough, they cost money again.

What’s better than an Xbox Live game on your Windows Phone? A free Xbox Live game for your Windows Phone. And today we’ve got two games from Gameloft for both Windows Phone 7.x and 8 users – Earthworm Jim HD and Assassin’s Creed. Grab them after the break.

While we weren’t too impressed when we first played Earthworm Jim, it’s hard to fault a game when it is free, so grab it. Same goes for Assassin’s Creed when we first checked it out.

But hey, we won’t complain when the games are free. No word on how long these two games are on the house, nab them while you can.

You can download Earthworm Jim for free right here in the Windows Phone Store, use the QR code below, or swipe right in our Windows Phone Central app.

And for those who want to get their crusade on - download Assassin’s Creed in the Windows Phone right here, QR code below, or swipe two the left two times in our Windows Phone Central app.

And if you're reading this Paul, I just had to use your old image as the lead - it's too good!

How about helping us help you. How did you access the Store? Through our app? The direct link? What market are you in - US, UK, Europe, India, etc? It's showing up as free for me when I go through both our app and the browser. Could be a regional thing then.

Now if only EA would get Trivial Pursuit into WP8 and for free...that would be really cool indeed...(yeah, I know, I just got 2 free games and I'm already asking for more. That's consumism for you. Deal with it :P )

Already used to have Assassin's Creed and got all the achievements from it, but just got Earthworm Jim for free, and got both games for my girlfriend's phone. Excellent deal, thanks for the heads up guys!

Must be rollout issues, I'm still having issues via device (qr and marketplace on Rogers Focus in Ontario) the website links above, the wpcentral app links and just searching the web store manually.
I'll try back later...

Tagged the download initiation for those games. I can't download it for now as it required wifi access to download apps bigger than 50MB. I'll start the download later at office's wifi and see what's the outcome. I hope I can make it in time :|

Whats hapens if you download the game when it is free then uninstaled and after time you want to download it again but the deal is over do you pay the money or you get it for free as a game that you already own

WiFi on my hd7 is broken. I clicked install and it goes to pending and attention required on both apps because they are too large to download over cellular. Is it in my purchase history now so I won't have to buy it when I get a new phone?

assassin's creed for free..best day ever! XD
thanks WPCentral for the info..even managed to get SMB2-SE while it was available through Nokia..all because of you..you rock! \m/ :D
edit: both games aren't good..earthworm jim is awful..assassin's creed badly needs good controls..they keypad is pathetic..and even when i select 8-direction pad..it still shows 360° pad.. -_-

"Note: It appears both games are showing up at $4.99 using the QR codes from your Windows Phone. However, if you click on the links and access the games through the online Store, they are free. " Still not true for this user. No matter which way I try, it still wants to charge me. I give up. L920, ATT, New England, USA.

Last night when I read this article, I followed the links from the article and both games were free.
However, when I did a search in the Market app instead, the games would show up with price tags.
But by following the above links, I got both for free.

I live in Norway.
No free games here.
We are being screwed by the following:
Gameloft.
Microsoft.
WPC.
Screwed by Gameloft because:
No free games, as promised.
In addition to that, many of gamelofts games sucks. Poor bastards who paid for them, i grieve for you and your money.

Screwed by Microsoft because:
Much of what is free on the two other major platforms is either unavailable or rather costly on WP7/8.
There is relatively few good games and apps available for wp8, and in some cases it will be hard to replace microsofts standard apps, like the pdf reader.
At work, i sometimes receive pdf documents by email, and way too often this cannot be opened on my phone.
I do not know why it is so, but seriously. I got a brand new Lumia 920, a phone which costs a lot of money, and it cannot read pdf.
Ie 10 does not function properly. Suggestions does not work properly, i can type in the whole wpcentral.com address and press enter before any suggestions is made. This was not the case on ie9 on wp7.
Updates to wp8 are slow to arrive. So the phone crashes now and then.

By Wpc because:
False information in this article.
Wpc app for WP does not function properly.

I will also point out the potential problems of adding your credit card to the store account.
The store will be open for purchases, also if you are to lose your phone.
This is bad. There is also the potential problem of hackers.
Look at sony!

Dude relax, we know not everything is perfect with microsoft ecosystem (yet) but don't tell me that apple or google is better on offering apps for free. If by free you mean tons of ads or for a simple live wallpaper the developer needs tons of permisions about you and your phone.If you dont care about permisions then yes, there are more free apps.
I beleive you were comlpaining with your previous device, iphone, android you name it.

I really don't think WP8 has the following needed to attract hackers. Nevermind it is a closed OS as opposed to Android. For the time being I think I'm safe from hackers. As for losing my phone? I can track it anywhere in the world, and retain the ablility to ring it, lock it, or wipe it. I am actually very unworried about losing this thing. As for pdfs? PDF reader app.

It seems they were free for a very brief time. I managed to snag them last night shortly after WPcentral announced it, but when I checked on a friend's phone this afternoon they were already back to their regular prices.

And both these games suck, I wouldn't pay more than $1 for them. I think I enjoyed Contract Killer and Gun Bros more.